01 / BTS & DOCUSERIES
Show, don't tell.
Why behind-the-scenes content and docuseries are the new brand trust signal.
The short answer. Ads, testimonials and "authentic" brand films are now cheap to fake. Real people with real stories are not.
A docuseries is the most expensive honest signal you can send to your target customers. It costs time, access and has an unknown ending, inviting your audience to reach the conclusion themselves.
02 / ORIGINAL SERIES
In Search Of | Season ONE
At the biggest cross-road of his career, Steve must decide to pursue his dream of becoming a Film-director & DP or continue as an elite-level headhunter.
// COMMISSIONS
What does it take to make a documentary about a founder?
A documentary about a founder takes a subject who is actually extraordinary, a crew that films what is there rather than what is staged, and a cut made for the screen people watch — the phone. In Search of Extraordinary makes the same films for founders, companies and private clients that it makes for itself, to the same standard, under the same house law.
03 / DIRECTOR
Steve Bourne
Steve Bourne is a filmmaker and director, and the founder of In Search of Extraordinary — a studio and a series making films and documentaries about extraordinary people.
He spent twenty years as a headhunter, assembling founding teams for the companies building the future, and started filming the work three years ago: the calls, the searches, the people no one else could reach. Season One follows one headhunter's year in fifty vertical episodes.
The studio makes the same films for founders, companies and private clients. His search firm, New Intelligence, continues alongside it — the research arm that keeps finding the people worth filming. He works between London and Dubai.
The search is the constant.